RACE REPORT - Two crazy days
Nicolas Troussel gives us his analysis of this tough start to the race and the important choices to be made this evening for the IMOCA fleet, while at sea it's been one gruelling hour after another, as it has been ashore where the Biotherm team in particular have had to go to Brest to repair their torn mainsail.
Teams info
Louis Burton is forced to abandon the Vendée Globe
Around 1 p.m. (French time) on Wednesday, December 4, Louis Burton informed the Vendée Globe race management and his technical team that he was facing a serious failure of a mechanical rigging component on his IMOCA.
•••Dorange and Le Turquais – the thrill of daggerboard racing in the Vendée Globe
In recent days the focus in the Vendée Globe has been on the latest foilers, as the leading boats take on heavy weather in the Southern Indian Ocean. But further west, the daggerboard skippers in older boats are enjoying…
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